Stepping Stone North

21/02/2026

Today’s Lunar New Year Social Rec update!

We took the train 🚆 to Fortitude Valley for the Lunar New Year 🌘 festival, and saw the Dotting of the Lions welcoming ceremony and some Traditional Korean Percussion and Dancing. 🇰🇷🦁🥁🪘

It was really great to witness the celebration of several different cultures. 🎉🥳

We also had some delicious food at the stalls, including chicken satay, Moo Ping, and chicken wings. 🍗🥜

It was a really interesting festival and was very fun to see. 😊

17/02/2026

Sadly today was our last NEST session with OzHarvest.
We cooked delicious tandoori chicken and tofu wraps with salad. For dessert we made chocolate spiders and carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
We finished with a graduation ceremony and received a cookbook of easy and healthy recipes.
The program was very beneficial and Chloe was an excellent teacher. We are all sad that it is ending and would recommend the program. 😃🥒🐔🫔🥗🍰🍫

A huge thankyou to OzHarvest for teaching us new cooking skills

17/02/2026

🌟 Hello! We Just had to share this incredible testimonial… Here at Stepping Stone North Clubhouse, we love hearing incredible stories like this from our amazing members 💛🥰🚀

17/02/2026

Join us for a powerful in-person event to explore how different providers play an important role in creating meaningful outcomes for NDIS participants, through connected presentations from initial diagnosis to implementation, specialist training and community participation.

Thursday 5th March 9.30am - 2pm at the Normanby Hotel, Brisbane.

14/02/2026

Social rec.

It may have been raining but we sure made the most of the day we had.

Started off checking out Roma street park lands where we enjoyed a lovely BBQ.

After eating a delicious lunch, we headed over to Southbank to have a look around the museum.

What a great day we had

Looking forward to another great social rec next week going to Luna new year celebrations. 

13/02/2026

This week we had a visit from Jenn, Idalia and Simone from Communify Queensland Redcliffe Medicare Mental Health Centre. They had a tour and learnt all about the clubhouse and its benefits from our members. The visitors were very interested in learning about our Stepping Stone Evaluation Project.

Over a delicious healthy Nourish Unit lunch they shared information about the services they provide to people living with mental health challenges who live in the Redcliffe Hospital catchment.

We hope we can work together to help continue to provide best support for members of the community. 😀🌻

12/02/2026

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What an amazing learning opportunity to learn new tricks and tips in the NEST program from our facilitator Chloe from OzHarvest. We are now in week 6 towards the end of our cooking course. We have all learnt so much and gained a lot of confidence during our time. The cooking class has improved our general cooking at home!

We couldn't be anymore grateful!

🙏 Thank you, Chloe and Oz Harvest team! 🙏

11/02/2026

Check out what our superstar North director has been up to!!! 🫢All the training has paid off and Jacqui has completed her trek of the 3 Capes in Tasmania. Each step was counted with a total of staggering 70 000 steps with a distance totaling 50KM. Well done Jacqui! We are incredibly proud of this massive achievement.🙌👏

This has raised $1280 so far for our clubhouse Stepping Stone North. 🤗

Thank you for your lovely generosity! 🥰

https://www.gofundme.com/f/hiking-for-community-mental-health-stepping-stone-north?fbclid=IwY2xjawPyEl1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFjbk1lWXBTV1p6UUY0S0pic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmjsDP706-GUmWKFcAQfpCwe4eKXwp4NdeqcXRw-3iVAZx4JhW8QwsY7oWct_aem_kNvR6aA8cjkRABn-HbQnMg

08/02/2026

🌟 At Stepping Stone North we Nourish to Flourish 🌟

We all know the importance of eating healthy for our mind and body. 🥗

Our Nourish unit prepares very healthy, nutricious, scrummy lunches for us everyday! We include a minimum of 5 veggie or salad items in every meal and all for $5! 🌮🍔🍝🍚🌯🥙

Each week as a group we do menu planning, budgeting, write a shopping list and go shopping to purchase everything we need for the week ahead. 📋

Each day we practice our kitchen skills of cutting, grating and other cooking skills. We also practice safe food and knife handling techniques to prevent cross contamination and other incidents in the kitchen. We can’t forgot the very important role of taking lunch orders and register/POS operator! 💰💵

🩵 What is your favourite thing to do in the Nourish unit?

🩵 What is your favourite meal?

📸 Check out our photos below of some of delicious meals and Members cooking up a storm ⬇️ 🍳

06/02/2026

Jacqui our Director is heading to Tasmania today to start her hike of The 3 Capes. ⛰️Whilst she is working through challenges she may face and reaching her goals, she is also raising money for Stepping Stone North which is something she holds close to her heart. 💜
We wish her all the best and we are in no doubt that she will do amazing. 🙏
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hiking-for-community-mental-health-stepping-stone-north?fbclid=IwY2xjawPyEl1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFjbk1lWXBTV1p6UUY0S0pic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmjsDP706-GUmWKFcAQfpCwe4eKXwp4NdeqcXRw-3iVAZx4JhW8QwsY7oWct_aem_kNvR6aA8cjkRABn-HbQnMg

I am Jacqui, the extremely proud Director of Stepping Stone N… Jacqui Gillespie needs your support for Hiking 3 Capes TAS for Mental Health - Stepping Stone North

03/02/2026

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This afternoon we thoroughly enjoyed our first social rec walking group through our beautiful surrounding parklands 🌳

We know the importance of keeping our bodies active and the positive effect it has on our mental health 👟🧠

We loved being active in the fresh air surrounded by greenery, exploring, the connection with others and watching the many people walking some beautiful dogs 🐕 🐶🐾🦮

🩵 Our social rec walking group will be every Tuesday afternoon from 4.30-5.30pm. We’d love you to join us 🌻

31/01/2026

☀️🏖️☀️ 🏖️☀️🏖️☀️🏖️☀️🏖️☀️🏖️☀️
What an amazing Saturday social rec we had which included an awesome drive up to the Queensland’s sunny Sunshine Coast, Bulcock beach. 🐚We cooked up a storm on the BBQ and everyone enjoyed lunch by the water, while some of us went for paddle in the ocean. After that we all enjoyed swimming in the cool and salty water. 💦 We all finished our day with delicious ice cream. 🍦😇

Some of our favourite thing included🎉

Brendan - really enjoyed the company, BBQ and especially the swimming 🙌😅

Tash - It’s great to get out and get some sunshine with some lovely people! 🥳

Matthew - Enjoyed everything!!! 😃

Margot - Being in the outdoors in the sunshine at the beach 🏖️

Briar - enjoyed the fish staring at them! 😄😂

Emma - Loved being at the beach with some great people! 🥹